Iran has begun a dayslong funeral for the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, months after an airstrike killed him at the start of the war.

A lavish gold ring encrusted with diamonds, sapphires, emeralds and rubies has been presented to the U.S. ambassador to Belgium to give to President Donald Trump.

Lionel Messi has scored again, making Friday’s contest against Cape Verde the record-extending eighth consecutive World Cup match in which Argentina’s captain has delivered at least one goal.

Three men have been acquitted of murder in the killing of Belfast journalist Lyra McKee.

A three-armed spacecraft is rushing to the rescue of a NASA telescope that’s in danger of crashing back to Earth.

Interpol has identified a 39-year-old Ukrainian woman as the main suspect in a Monaco bombing that reportedly targeted a Ukrainian tycoon linked to Russia.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has condemned senators who blocked changes to the social media ban for children.

The far-right Alternative for Germany is in a buoyant mood as it holds a convention this weekend.

The rush is on across Venezuela’s north coast to identify loved ones before it’s too late.

Train enthusiasts are celebrating the 100th anniversary of a historic Swiss railway as vintage steam locomotives ferry tourists through the stunning Alpine scenery as part of the celebration.

Shares are mixed in Europe after a rally in Asia following the Dow Jones Industrial Average's latest record.

Neil, a 2,200-pound elephant seal, has returned to his birthplace on the Australian coast, causing quite a stir.

President Vladimir Putin remains unfazed by Ukraine's attacks on Russian oil refineries, despite severe fuel shortages.

President Donald Trump has berated and belittled many of the European leaders who are expected to attend the upcoming NATO summit in Turkey.

Lam Wing-kee, a former Hong Kong bookseller and symbol of resistance to Beijing's crackdown on free speech, has died in Taiwan.

Iran is preparing for the dayslong funeral of the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Michael Scurr, a volunteer at Britain’s National Archives, has discovered a rare early copy of the Declaration of Independence.

Haruki Murakami's first full-length novel with a lone female protagonist has been released."

Venezuela's acting President Delcy Rodríguez has defended her government's response to last week's devastating earthquakes.

Irisleydis Tristá, a cancer patient in Cuba, has been unable to get a crucial CT scan for seven months because the machine at Havana’s leading hospital is broken.

Albanian police clashed with protesters in Tirana during a demonstration against government corruption and a luxury development linked to Jared Kushner, son-in-law of U.S. President Donald Trump.

Rescuers have pulled a 43-year-old security guard alive from a collapsed basement, ending a grueling dayslong operation that became a symbol of hope after the devastation of twin earthquakes that struck Venezuela eight days earlier.

Syria’s Health Ministry says an explosive device has detonated in a Damascus cafe, killing at least nine people and wounding 20 others.

A rush rescue mission to save a NASA space telescope remains grounded, this time because of a last-minute launch problem.

Judges at the European Union's top court have dismissed Google's appeal against a 4.1 billion euro antitrust fine.

The Trump administration is proposing a new rule to keep hospitals from charging markups on discounted drugs for Medicare patients and says that could save consumers $1.1 billion next year, according to estimates obtained by the AP.

Princess Kate met tennis fans lining up in Wimbledon’s famous Queue and sat next to Andy Murray in a day of rooting on British players at the grass-court Grand Slam.

Iran’s joint military command has warned that all oil tankers moving through the Strait of Hormuz must use its approved routes or face a “forceful response.”.

Russia likely used shadow ships to launch drones over Europe that repeatedly disrupted civilian aviation, as it monitored military sites and tested the air defenses of NATO nations.

A young couple in Indonesia’s conservative Aceh province were publicly caned after an Islamic Shariah court convicted them of violating Islamic law by kissing during a TikTok livestream.

Officials in Thailand say an 11-year-old boy has crashed a pickup truck into Buddhist monks on a pilgrimage, killing nine.

The Vatican has responded aggressively to a traditionalist society that consecrated bishops without the pope’s consent.

Most U.S. stocks rose, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average set another record, but more drops for chip stocks and other AI winners kept indexes mixed.

U.S. President Donald Trump’s attacks on Italy’s premier have had an unintended consequence.

Russia has launched a massive drone and missile attack on Kyiv, killing at least 21 civilians in the city and injuring many more.

Alibaba has agreed to pay $600 million to settle a dispute with the U.S. government.

Humpback whales are increasingly spotted off Rio de Janeiro as their population recovers from past commercial whaling.

Ceasefires in the Middle East are not bringing the peace many people expect.

With far more dead than living people taken from the rubble a week after Venezuela’s devastating twin earthquakes, doctors say the biggest dangers now facing survivors were untreated wounds and infectious diseases.

Mexican health authorities report that four people died during celebrations in downtown Mexico City.

New Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh said Wednesday that the central bank would remain independent and seek to bring down inflation, likely foreclosing the rate cuts President Trump has sought.

President Donald Trump has taken his maiden voyage on a new Air Force One.

A federal filing shows President Donald Trump took in nearly $1.2 billion from his crypto businesses last year, locking in profits while his investors were socked with losses.

The European Union has introduced two measures to protect its steel industry and limit small e-commerce parcels.

Ukrainian forces have struck Russia's major Ufa oil refinery for the second time in a week, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Wednesday.

The Supreme Court has tackled several key immigration issues this term, supporting President Donald Trump's administration in three cases.

At least six people have died in a fire at an apartment block on the outskirts of Antwerp, Belgium.

A ship ran aground in the Strait of Hormuz while using a route not approved by Iran.

Mourners are attending funerals of 14 schoolchildren who were killed when the roof of a tutoring center collapsed.

Many Venezuelan earthquake survivors across northern La Guaira state, in Caracas and surrounding regions are asking the same question.

Hospitals in the Paris region are urgently upgrading their defenses against heat waves.

Turkey is implementing extensive security measures for the upcoming NATO summit, deploying thousands of police and banning public gatherings.

A breakaway group of traditionalist Catholics has directly defied Pope Leo XIV by consecrating four bishops without his consent.

Lines are growing at Russian gas stations -- and so is the frustration and uncertainty as several months of Ukrainian attacks have set oil refineries ablaze and choked supplies for motorists across the vast country.

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Most U.S. stocks rose, but drops for some influential technology companies pulled the market lower.

A federal control board that oversees Puerto Rico’s finances says it has offered a $3 billion settlement to bondholders in a new push to finally restructure more than $10 billion in debt held by the U.S. territory’s power company.

Gadi Eisenkot, a former general, has emerged as a significant challenger to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel's upcoming election.

Filmmaker Pierre Coffin is the creator and chief practitioner of Minionese, but it’s a dialect — like most things Minions — that’s taken time to hone.

A roof collapse at a tutoring center under construction in Lahore, Pakistan, has killed at least 14 schoolchildren.

The largest digital camera ever built is beginning to capture images of unseen corners of the universe in finer detail.

Aid groups are warning that Venezuela's healthcare system is at its breaking point nearly a week after two powerful earthquakes hit the South American country.

It’s been 123 days since the U.S. and Israel launched the Iran war, and the world again awaits another round of some sort of talks as President Donald Trump and Iranian officials disagree over what and even how they’ll communicate.

The Andrew Carnegie Foundation has announced this year’s “Great Immigrants, Great Americans” honorees, including Citi CEO Jane Fraser and Pulitzer Prize-winning authors Hernan Diaz and Cristina Rivera Garza.

U.S. envoys arrived in Qatar for meetings with mediators working to negotiate an end to the war with Iran.

Natural gas could start flowing from two undersea deposits ExxonMobil discovered off Cyprus by 2033, the company's Vice President of Global Exploration John Ardill said, helping to turn the east Mediterranean island nation into a new European energy hub.

Gojek co-founder Nadiem Anwar Makarim has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after Indonesia’s anti-graft court found him guilty in a high-profile corruption case stemming from his time as education minister.

Thousands of demonstrators have gathered in South Africa to protest illegal immigration.

The agreement struck between the United States and Iran aims to end the war, reopen the Strait of Hormuz, ease sanctions on the Islamic Republic and relaunch nuclear talks with a 60-day deadline.

Pope Leo XIV has issued a plea to a breakaway group of traditionalist Catholics to call off its planned consecrations of new bishops without his consent.

Britain's future military will focus on self-flying jets, uncrewed submarines and drones.

Venezuelan merchant Grian Serrano has twice survived major natural disasters in the same place.

From refugee camps to stitching circles, many in the Palestinian diaspora around the world are engaging with a traditional form of Palestinian embroidery as far more than a decorative aesthetic.

U.S. stocks rose and trimmed their losses in what had been a rocky June.

An explosive went off in an apartment building entrance in Monaco, wounding three people, reportedly including a Ukrainian tycoon with ties to Russia.

Climate-exacerbated heat increases and unpredictable rainfall combined with unplanned urban growth have resulted in nearly half the lakes in the mountainous, India-controlled Jammu and Kashmir region disappearing or becoming highly polluted in the last six decades.

The San Francisco Catholic Archdiocese has agreed to pay $395 million to settle over 500 lawsuits alleging child sexual abuse by church officials.

Survivors say more than 100 people just deported from the United States were being held in a hotel when earthquakes struck Venezuela, setting off a scramble to find survivors and bodies buried in the rubble.

Scientists have stumbled on a rare dinosaur fossil from Antarctica tucked in a drawer.

Penelope Keith, known for her roles in British sitcoms "The Good Life" and "To the Manor Born," has died at 86.

For those trapped in rubble after an earthquake, survival depends on many factors, including weather and access to water and air.

At Men's Fashion Week in Paris, women were everywhere, walking coed runways and modeling menswear.

President Donald Trump has won and lost some as the Supreme Court wraps its final week of a term focused on executive power.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Russian missiles and drones have killed at least 11 civilians and injured 40 others.

With the window for finding survivors shrinking fast, Venezuelans combed through more ruins of buildings toppled by last week’s devastating back-to-back earthquakes.

A shooting at a youth welfare facility in northern Germany on Monday leaves six people dead.

Israeli strikes in southern and central Gaza on Monday killed at least eight people, including two children, according to health officials.

Andy Burnham, likely the next U.K. prime minister, has pledged to give more autonomy to local leaders.

The United States and Iran have separately announced they are sending delegations to Qatar this week, though Tehran insists it has not agreed to meet with the U_S_ “at any level.”.

Officials in Afghanistan say overnight strikes by Pakistani forces have killed at least 36 civilians and injured more than 160.

Australia and Vanuatu have signed a long-awaited bilateral security and economic treaty that prevents China creating a military base on the South Pacific island nation.

China has imposed new export controls on 40 Japanese entities, accusing them of contributing to Japan’s “remilitarization.”.

U.S. stocks rose and recovered some of their losses from a rare losing week.

A record-breaking heat wave has overwhelmed mortuaries in Paris, leaving funeral directors struggling to find space for bodies.

Chinese dissident Dong Guangping has finally reached Canada after a perilous escape from China.

A rights group is warning that Vietnam is increasingly using broadly worded laws to arrest activists, dissidents and others seen as threats to Communist Party rule.

In the days since two devastating earthquakes, search teams and locals had believed that there were no signs of life under a mountain of concrete in La Guaira, one of the areas that's been hardest hit in Venezuela.

Pakistani officials say its security forces have launched a major operation along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, targeting militant hideouts.

Local health officials say the latest Israeli strikes across the Gaza Strip have killed at least four Palestinians, including a 13-year-old girl.

Local and international rescue teams raced against the clock to pull survivors from the rubble in Venezuela four days after two powerful earthquakes shook the northern state of La Guaira.